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Yashka

Maria Bochkareva

NonfictionBiography and memoirabout 11 h 15 min of listening

A Russian peasant leaves exile in Siberia to fight for her country in World War I.

Contents

  1. Imprint
  2. Introduction
  3. Yashka
  4. Part I: Youth
  5. I: My Childhood of Toil
  6. II: Marriage at Fifteen
  7. III: A Little Happiness
  8. IV: The Road to Exile
  9. V: Escape from Exile
  10. Part II: War
  11. VI: I Enlist by the Grace of the Tsar
  12. VII: My First Experience of No Man’s Land
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  1. VIII: Wounded and Paralysed
  2. IX: Eight Hours in German Hands
  3. Part III: Revolution
  4. X: The Revolution at the Front
  5. XI: I Organize the Battalion of Death
  6. XII: My Fight Against Committee Rule
  7. XIII: The Battalion at the Front
  8. XIV: An Errand from Kerensky to Kornilov
  9. XV: The Army Becomes a Savage Mob
  10. Part IV: Terror
  11. XVI: The Triumph of Bolshevism
  12. XVII: Facing Lenin and Trotsky
  13. XVIII: Caught in a Bolshevik Deathtrap
  14. XIX: Saved by a Miracle
  15. XX: I Set Out on a Mission
  16. Endnotes
  17. List of Illustrations
  18. Colophon
  19. Uncopyright

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Source: Standard Ebooks. CC0 1.0 (Standard Ebooks edition); the text is in the public domain

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